US8583985B2 - Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, reception method, program and transmission system - Google Patents

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US8583985B2
US8583985B2 US13/253,464 US201113253464A US8583985B2 US 8583985 B2 US8583985 B2 US 8583985B2 US 201113253464 A US201113253464 A US 201113253464A US 8583985 B2 US8583985 B2 US 8583985B2
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  • This disclosure relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, a reception method, a program and a transmission system.
  • the transmission capacity demanded for an interface between signal processing LSIs is increasing at an accelerated pace, and this makes a transmission error likely to occur and makes it difficult to assure a transmission band sufficient to re-send data.
  • a transmission apparatus including an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, a division section adapted to allocate coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines and adapted to transmit the coded data allocated by the division section to a reception apparatus through the transmission lines.
  • the transmission apparatus may be configured such that the division section allocates padding data having a predetermined value to any of the transmission lines to which the coded data are allocated by a smaller amount than the other transmission lines so that an amount of the coded data equal to the allocation amount of the coded data to the other transmission lines is allocated, and the transmission section provided corresponding to the transmission line to which the padding data is allocated transmits the padding data next to the coded data.
  • the division section may allocate the coded data which configure the same codeword to different ones of the transmission lines in an order in which the coded data are supplied from the error correction code calculation section.
  • a transmission method including calculating, by an error correction code calculation section, an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, allocating, by a division section, coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and transmitting, by a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines, the coded data allocated by the division section to a reception apparatus through the transmission lines.
  • a program for causing a computer to execute a process including calculating, by an error correction code calculation section, an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, allocating, by a division section, coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and transmitting, by a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines, the coded data allocated by the division section to a reception apparatus through the transmission lines.
  • a reception apparatus including a plurality of reception sections provided corresponding to a plurality of transmission lines and adapted to receive coded data transmitted from a transmission apparatus which calculates an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, allocates coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and transmits the coded data allocated to the transmission lines, a coupling section adapted to produce a codeword based on the coded data received by the plural reception sections, and an error correction section adapted to carry out error correction of the data of the transmission object based on the error correction code included in the codeword produced by the coupling section.
  • the reception apparatus may be configured such that, in the case where padding data having a predetermined value is allocated by the transmission apparatus to any of the transmission lines to which the coded data are allocated by a smaller amount than the other transmission lines so that an amount of the coded data equal to the allocation amount of the coded data to the other transmission lines is allocated and the padding data is received by that one of the reception sections which corresponds to the transmission line to which the padding data is allocated, the coupling section removes the padding data.
  • a reception method including receiving, by a plurality of reception sections provided corresponding to a plurality of transmission lines, coded data transmitted from a transmission apparatus which calculates an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, allocates coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and transmits the coded data allocated to the transmission lines, producing, by a coupling section, a codeword based on the coded data received by the plural reception sections, and carrying out, by an error correction section, error correction of the data of the transmission object based on the error correction code included in the codeword produced by the coupling section.
  • a program for causing a computer to execute a process including receiving, by a plurality of reception sections provided corresponding to a plurality of transmission lines, coded data transmitted from a transmission apparatus which calculates an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, allocates coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and transmits the coded data allocated to the transmission lines, producing, by a coupling section, a codeword based on the coded data received by the plural reception sections, and carrying out, by an error correction section, error correction of the data of the transmission object based on the error correction code included in the codeword produced by the coupling section.
  • a transmission system including a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus.
  • the transmission apparatus includes an error correction code calculation section adapted to calculate an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, a division section adapted to allocate coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and a plurality of transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines and adapted to transmit the coded data allocated by the division section to the reception apparatus through the transmission lines.
  • the reception apparatus includes a plurality of reception sections provided corresponding to the transmission lines and adapted to receive the coded data transmitted from the transmission apparatus, a coupling section adapted to produce a codeword based on the coded data received by the plural reception sections, and an error correction section adapted to carry out error correction of the data of the transmission object based on the error correction code included in the codeword produced by the coupling section.
  • the error correction code calculation section calculates an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word.
  • the division section allocates coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation by the error correction code calculation section to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to the plural transmission lines. Then, the plural transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines transmit the coded data allocated by the division section to the reception apparatus through the transmission lines.
  • the plural reception sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines receive coded data transmitted from the transmission apparatus which calculates an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, allocates coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to a plurality of transmission lines, and transmits the coded data allocated to the transmission lines. Then, the coupling section produces a codeword based on the coded data received by the plural reception sections. Then, the error correction section carries out error correction of the data of the transmission object based on the error correction code included in the codeword produced by the coupling section.
  • the transmission apparatus calculates an error correction code from data of a transmission object as an information word, and allocates coded data which configure a codeword obtained by adding the error correction code determined by the calculation to the data of the transmission object for each predetermined number of units to the plural transmission lines. Further, the transmission apparatus transmits, by the plural transmission sections provided corresponding to the plural transmission lines, the allocated coded data to the reception apparatus through the transmission lines. Meanwhile, the reception apparatus receives, by the plural reception sections provided corresponding to the transmission lines, the coded data transmitted from the transmission apparatus. Then, the reception apparatus produces a codeword based on the coded data received by the plural reception sections, and carries out error correction of the data of the transmission object based on the error correction code included in the produced codeword.
  • the error correction capacity can be enhanced while the transmission speed of data is raised.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration of a transmission system
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view illustrating an example of rearrangement of transmission data
  • FIG. 3 is a diagrammatic view illustrating an example of error correction coding
  • FIG. 4 is a diagrammatic view illustrating an example of transmission line division of transmission data
  • FIG. 5 is a diagrammatic view illustrating another example of transmission line division of transmission data
  • FIG. 6 is a diagrammatic view illustrating a frame configuration of a transmission frame
  • FIG. 7 is a diagrammatic view illustrating transmission line coupling of transmission data
  • FIG. 8 is a diagrammatic view illustrating an example of error correction decoding
  • FIG. 9 is a flow chart illustrating a transmission process of a transmission side block
  • FIG. 10 is a flow chart illustrating a reception process of a reception side block
  • FIG. 11 is a block diagram showing a modification to the transmission system.
  • FIG. 12 is a block diagram showing an example of a configuration of a computer.
  • FIG. 1 shows an example of a configuration of a transmission system according to an embodiment of the technology disclosed herein.
  • the transmission system 1 shown includes a transmission side block 11 and a reception side block 12 .
  • the transmission side block 11 and the reception side block 12 are implemented, for example, by LSIs different from each other or by the same LSI and are provided in the same apparatus wherein information is processed such as a digital camera, a portable telephone set or a personal computer.
  • the transmission side block 11 and the reception side block 12 are connected to each other by four transmission lines C 1 to C 4 .
  • the transmission lines C 1 to C 4 may be wire transmission lines or wireless transmission lines. Further, the number of transmission lines between the transmission side block 11 and the reception side block 12 may be five or more.
  • the transmission side block 11 includes a signal processing section 21 , a rearrangement processing section 22 , an ECC (Error Correcting Code) processing section 23 , a division section 24 , and transmission processing sections 25 - 1 to 25 - 4 .
  • ECC Error Correcting Code
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 1 includes a framing section 31 - 1 , a modulation section 32 - 1 , a DAC (Digital Analog Converter) 33 - 1 and a transmission amplifier 34 - 1
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 2 includes a framing section 31 - 2 , a modulation section 32 - 2 , a DAC 33 - 2 and a transmission amplifier 34 - 2 .
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 3 includes a framing section 31 - 3 , a modulation section 32 - 3 , a DAC 33 - 3 and a transmission amplifier 34 - 3
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 4 includes a framing section 31 - 4 , a modulation section 32 - 4 , a DAC 33 - 4 and a transmission amplifier 34 - 4 .
  • the division section 24 is provided at a position lower than the ECC processing section 23 . Further, at a position lower than the division section 24 , a transmission processing section including a framing section, a modulation section, a DAC and a transmission amplifier is provided corresponding to each of the transmission lines C 1 to C 4 .
  • the signal processing section 21 carries out various signal processing and outputs transmission data which are data of a transmission object such as image data, text data and audio data obtained by carrying out the signal processing to the rearrangement processing section 22 .
  • transmission data are inputted from an external circuit of the transmission side block 11 to the rearrangement processing section 22 .
  • pixel data which configure an image picked up by an external image pickup device such as, for example, a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) image pickup device may be inputted as transmission data in order one by one pixel data.
  • CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
  • the rearrangement processing section 22 acquires the transmission data supplied thereto from the signal processing section 21 and carries out rearrangement of the acquired transmission data. For example, in the case where the transmission data are data whose symbol is configured from a predetermined number of bits such as 12 bits, the rearrangement processing section 22 carries out rearrangement of the data to convert the data into data of a unit of 8 bits.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates an example of rearrangement of transmission data.
  • the rearrangement processing section 22 collects every 8 bits in the inputted order and rearranges the symbols S 1 to S 4 into symbols s 1 to s 6 which are data of a unit of 8 bits as indicated ahead of an arrow mark in FIG. 2 .
  • the symbol s 1 is configured from 8 bits from the first bit to the eighth bit of the symbol S 1 .
  • the symbol s 2 is configured from 8 bits including 4 bits from the ninth bit to the 12th bit of the symbol S 1 and 4 bits from the first bit to the fourth bit of the symbol S 2 .
  • the symbol s 3 is configured from 8 bits from the fifth bit to the 12th bit of the symbol S 2 .
  • the symbol s 4 is configured from 8 bits from the first bit to the eighth bit of the symbol S 3 .
  • the symbol s 5 is configured from 8 bits including 4 bits from the ninth bit to the 12th bit of the symbol S 3 and 4 bits from the first bit to the fourth bit of the symbol S 4 .
  • the symbol s 6 is configured from 8 bits from the fifth bit to the 12th bit of the symbol S 4 .
  • the rearrangement processing section 22 carries out a process of rearranging transmission data into data of a unit of 8 bits so that, in whichever bit number each symbol of transmission data is represented, a transmission frame can be produced by the same process by a processing section at a succeeding stage.
  • the rearrangement processing section 22 outputs transmission data of a unit of 8 bits obtained by the rearrangement to the ECC processing section 23 .
  • the ECC processing section 23 calculates an error correction code to be used for error correction of transmission data of a unit of 8 bits supplied thereto from the rearrangement processing section 22 based on the transmission data. Further, the ECC processing section 23 adds a parity which is the error correction code determined by the calculation to the transmission data to carry out error correction coding. For example, the Reed Solomon code is used as the error correction code.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates an example of error correction coding by the ECC processing section 23 .
  • the ECC processing section 23 applies a predetermined number of transmission data of a unit of 8 bits as an information word to a generating polynomial to carry out calculation of a parity. For example, also the parity determined by the ECC processing section 23 is data of a unit of 8 bits. The ECC processing section 23 adds the parity determined by the calculation to the information word as indicated ahead of a solid-white arrow mark to produce a codeword. The ECC processing section 23 outputs the coded data which are the data of the produced codeword in a unit of 8 bits to the division section 24 .
  • the division section 24 allocates the coded data of a unit of 8 bits supplied thereto from the ECC processing section 23 successively to the transmission lines C 1 to C 4 beginning with the top data to carry out transmission line division.
  • the division section 24 carries out the transmission line division such that, when certain coded data is allocated to the transmission line C 4 , succeeding coded data are successively allocated to the transmission lines beginning with the transmission line C 1 .
  • FIG. 4 illustrates an example of transmission line division.
  • each of blocks denoted by numerals represents transmission data or a parity of a unit of 8 bits.
  • One codeword is configured from data of 24 bits of the blocks 1 to 3 , blocks 4 to 6 , blocks 7 to 9 and blocks 10 to 12 , and the coded data of the blocks 1 to 12 are supplied in order.
  • the division section 24 allocates the coded data supplied thereto from the ECC processing section 23 in the supplied order to the transmission lines C 1 to C 4 such that those coded data which configure the same codeword may not be transmitted using the same transmission line.
  • the coded data of the blocks 1 , 2 and 3 which configure the codeword 1 are allocated to the transmission lines C 1 , C 2 and C 3 , respectively, and the coded data of the blocks 4 , 5 and 6 which configure the codeword 2 are allocated to the transmission lines C 4 , C 1 and C 2 , respectively.
  • coded data of the blocks 7 , 8 and 9 which configure the codeword 3 are allocated to the transmission lines C 3 , C 4 and C 1 , respectively, and the coded data of the blocks 10 , 11 and 12 which configure the codeword 4 are allocated to the transmission lines C 2 , C 3 , and C 4 , respectively.
  • the coded data of the blocks 1 , 5 and 9 allocated to the transmission line C 1 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 1
  • the coded data of the blocks 2 , 6 and 10 allocated to the transmission line C 2 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 2
  • the coded data of the blocks 3 , 7 and 11 allocated to the transmission line C 3 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 3
  • the coded data of the blocks 4 , 8 and 12 allocated to the transmission line C 4 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 4 .
  • FIG. 5 illustrates another example of transmission line division.
  • the division section 24 allocates coded data supplied from the ECC processing section 23 in the supplied order to the transmission lines C 1 to C 5 such that those coded data which configure the same codeword may not be transmitted using the same transmission line similarly.
  • coded data of the blocks 1 , 2 and 3 which configure the codeword 1 are allocated to the transmission lines C 1 , C 2 and C 3 , respectively
  • coded data of the blocks 4 , 5 and 6 which configure the codeword 2 are allocated to the transmission lines C 4 , C 5 and C 1 , respectively.
  • coded data of the blocks 7 , 8 and 9 which configure the codeword 3 are allocated to the transmission lines C 2 , C 3 and C 4 , respectively, and coded data of the blocks 10 , 11 and 12 which configure the codeword 4 are allocated to the transmission lines C 5 , C 1 and C 2 , respectively
  • the division section 24 allocates padding data to each of those transmission lines to which a smaller amount of coded data is allocated so that the data amounts of the coded data allocated to all transmission lines may be equal to each other. Also the padding data is 8-bit data and has a predetermined value such as “00000000.”
  • one padding data is applied to the transmission lines C 3 , C 4 and C 5 to which a smaller amount of coded data is allocated.
  • a block indicated by slanting lines represents padding data.
  • the coded data of the blocks 1 , 6 and 11 allocated to the transmission line C 1 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 1
  • the coded data of the blocks 2 , 7 and 12 allocated to the transmission line C 2 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 2
  • the coded data of the blocks 3 and 8 allocated to the transmission line C 3 and the padding data P 1 allocated to the transmission line C 3 next to the coded data of the block 8 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 3
  • the coded data of the blocks 4 and 9 allocated to the transmission line C 4 and the padding data P 2 allocated to the transmission line C 4 next to the coded data of the block 9 are supplied in this order to the framing section 31 - 4 .
  • the coded data of the blocks 5 and 10 allocated to the transmission line C 5 and the padding data P 3 allocated to the transmission line C 5 next to the coded data of the block 10 are supplied in this order to a transmission processing section not shown which carries out processing of data transmitted thereto from the transmission line C 5 .
  • the padding data is applied by the division section 24 .
  • the number or bit number of all padding data to be allocated is equal to a number obtained by subtracting the remainder when the number of coded data is divided by the number of transmission lines from the number of transmission lines. Since the sizes of data allocated to the transmission lines are made equal to each other in this manner, it is possible to establish synchronism among processes to be carried out in parallel by the transmission processing sections 25 - 1 to 25 - 4 .
  • the framing section 31 - 1 of the transmission section 25 - 1 produces a packet by placing coded data supplied thereto from the division section 24 into the payload and adding a header and a footer regarding transmission data to the payload.
  • the framing section 31 - 1 also places the padding data into the payload similarly to the coded data.
  • the framing section 31 - 1 adds a start code representative of a start position of packet data to the top of the packet and adds an end code representative of an end position of the packet data to the tail end of the packet to produce a transmission frame.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates a frame configuration of a transmission frame.
  • a header and a footer are added to a payload, in which coded data are placed, to configure one packet. Further, a start code and an end code are added to the packet to configure a transmission frame.
  • the framing section 31 - 1 outputs the frame data, which are data of a transmission frame having such a frame configuration as illustrated in FIG. 6 , to the modulation section 32 - 1 in order beginning with the top data.
  • the modulation section 32 - 1 modulates the frame data supplied thereto from the framing section 31 - 1 in accordance with a predetermined method and outputs the frame data after the modulation to the DAC 33 - 1 .
  • the DAC 33 - 1 carries out D/A conversion for the frame data supplied thereto from the modulation section 32 - 1 and outputs an analog signal obtained by the D/A conversion to the transmission amplifier 34 - 1 .
  • the transmission amplifier 34 - 1 adjusts the signal voltage of the signal supplied thereto from the DAC 33 - 1 and transmits the signal after the adjustment to the reception side block 12 through the transmission line C 1 .
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 2 to 25 - 4 processes similar to those carried out by the components of the transmission processing section 25 - 1 are carried out.
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 2 carries out framing, modulation and D/A conversion for coded data allocated to the transmission line C 2 and transmits a signal representative of frame data through the transmission line C 2 .
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 3 carries out framing, modulation and D/A conversion for coded data allocated to the transmission line C 3 and transmits a signal representative of frame data through the transmission line C 3 .
  • the transmission processing section 25 - 4 carries out framing, modulation and D/A conversion for coded data allocated to the transmission line C 4 and transmits a signal representative of frame data through the transmission line C 4 .
  • the reception side block 12 includes reception processing sections 51 - 1 to 51 - 4 , a coupling section 52 , an ECC processing section 53 , a rearrangement processing section 54 and a signal processing section 55 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 1 includes a reception amplifier 61 - 1 , a clock reproduction section 62 - 1 , an ADC (Analog Digital Converter) 63 - 1 , a demodulation section 64 - 1 and a frame synchronization section 65 - 1 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 2 includes a reception amplifier 61 - 2 , a clock reproduction section 62 - 2 , an ADC 63 - 2 , a demodulation section 64 - 2 and a frame synchronization section 65 - 2 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 3 includes a reception amplifier 61 - 3 , a clock reproduction section 62 - 3 , an ADC 63 - 3 , a demodulation section 64 - 3 and a frame synchronization section 65 - 3 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 4 includes a reception amplifier 61 - 4 , a clock reproduction section 62 - 4 , an ADC 63 - 4 , a demodulation section 64 - 4 and a frame synchronization section 65 - 4 .
  • a signal transmitted from the transmission amplifier 34 - 1 of the transmission side block 11 is inputted to the reception amplifier 61 - 1 , and a signal transmitted from the transmission amplifier 34 - 2 is inputted to the reception amplifier 61 - 2 .
  • a signal transmitted from the transmission amplifier 34 - 3 is inputted to the reception amplifier 61 - 3 , and a signal transmitted from the transmission amplifier 34 - 4 is inputted to the reception amplifier 61 - 4 .
  • the coupling section 52 is provided at a position lower than the ECC processing section 53 in the reception side block 12 . Further, a reception processing section having a reception amplifier, a clock reproduction section, an ADC, a demodulation section and a frame synchronization section is provided in a corresponding relationship to each of the transmission lines C 1 to C 4 at a position lower than the coupling section 52 .
  • the reception amplifier 61 - 1 of the reception processing section 51 - 1 receives a signal transmitted thereto from the transmission side block 11 , adjusts the signal voltage of the received signal and outputs the signal of the adjusted signal voltage.
  • the signal outputted from the reception amplifier 61 - 1 is inputted to the clock reproduction section 62 - 1 and the ADC 63 - 1 .
  • the clock reproduction section 62 - 1 detects an edge of the input signal to establish bit synchronism and reproduces a clock signal based on a detection period of the edge.
  • the clock reproduction section 62 - 1 outputs the reproduced clock signal to the ADC 63 - 1 .
  • the ADC 63 - 1 carries out sampling of the input signal in accordance with the clock signal reproduced by the clock reproduction section 62 - 1 and outputs frame data obtained by the sampling to the demodulation section 64 - 1 .
  • the demodulation section 64 - 1 carries out demodulation of the frame data by a method corresponding to the modulation method used by the modulation section 32 - 1 of the transmission side block 11 and outputs the frame data after the demodulation to the frame synchronization section 65 - 1 .
  • the frame synchronization section 65 - 1 detects a start code and an end code from the frame data supplied thereto from the demodulation section 64 - 1 to establish frame synchronism.
  • the frame synchronization section 65 - 1 detects data from the start code to the end code as packet data and outputs coded data placed in the payload of the packet data to the coupling section 52 .
  • reception processing sections 51 - 2 to 51 - 4 carry out similar processes to those carried out by the components of the reception processing section 51 - 1 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 2 carries out sampling of a signal transmitted thereto through the transmission line C 2 , demodulation of frame data obtained by the sampling and frame synchronization and outputs coded data to the coupling section 52 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 3 carries out sampling of a signal transmitted thereto through the transmission line C 3 , demodulation of frame data obtained by the sampling and frame synchronization and outputs coded data to the coupling section 52 .
  • the reception processing section 51 - 4 carries out sampling of a signal transmitted thereto through the transmission line C 4 , demodulation of frame data obtained by the sampling and frame synchronization and outputs coded data to the coupling section 52 .
  • the coupling section 52 rearranges the coded data supplied thereto from the reception processing sections 51 - 1 to 51 - 4 in an order reverse to the allocation order of the coded data to the transmission lines by the division section 24 of the transmission side block 11 to carry out transmission line coupling or integration.
  • FIG. 7 illustrates an example of transmission line coupling.
  • transmission line division of coded data of the blocks 1 to 12 is carried out in such a manner as described hereinabove with reference to FIG. 4 .
  • the coupling section 52 rearranges the coded data in the reverse order to the allocation order of the coded data to the transmission line upon transmission line division to produce coded data of a sequence same as that in the output order of the coded data from the ECC processing section 23 as indicated ahead of a solid-white arrow mark in FIG. 7 .
  • the coupling section 52 successively outputs the coded data of the blocks 1 to 12 , which configure each codeword produced by carrying out the rearrangement, to the ECC processing section 53 .
  • the coupling section 52 removes the padding data and outputs only the coded data.
  • the ECC processing section 53 carries out error correction arithmetic operation based on the parity included in the coded data supplied thereto from the coupling section 52 to detect an error of the transmission data and carries out correction of the detected error.
  • FIG. 8 illustrates an example of error correction decoding by the ECC processing section 53 .
  • the ECC processing section 53 carries out error detection arithmetic operation based on the parity to detect the bits E 1 and E 2 and corrects the bits E 1 and E 2 as indicated ahead of a solid-white arrow mark # 12 .
  • the ECC processing section 53 carries out error correction decoding for each codeword and outputs the transmission data after the error correction to the rearrangement processing section 54 .
  • the rearrangement processing section 54 rearranges the transmission data of a unit of 8 bits supplied thereto from the ECC processing section 53 in the reverse order to the rearrangement order by the rearrangement processing section 22 of the transmission side block 11 .
  • the rearrangement processing section 54 carries out reverse processing to the processing described hereinabove with reference to FIG. 2 to convert the transmission data of a unit of 8 bits into transmission data of a unit of a predetermined bit number such as 12 bits.
  • the rearrangement processing section 54 outputs the transmission data obtained by the rearrangement to the signal processing section 55 .
  • the signal processing section 55 uses the transmission data supplied thereto from the rearrangement processing section 54 to carry out various processes. For example, if the transmission data are pixel data which configure an image, then the signal processing section 55 produces an image of one frame based on the pixel data and carries out various processes such as compression of the image data, display of an image and recording of the image data into a recording medium.
  • the signal processing section 21 carries out signal processing and outputs transmission data obtained by the signal processing.
  • the rearrangement processing section 22 acquires the transmission data supplied thereto from the signal processing section 21 and carries out rearrangement of the data in such a manner as described hereinabove with reference to FIG. 2 .
  • the ECC processing section 23 calculates a parity based on the transmission data of a unit of 8 bits obtained by the rearrangement and adds the parity to the transmission data to carry out error correction coding.
  • the division section 24 carries out transmission line division of the coded data obtained by the error correction coding.
  • the processes at steps S 5 to S 8 are repeated in parallel by the transmission processing sections 25 - 1 to 25 - 4 .
  • the framing sections 31 - 1 to 31 - 4 individually place the coded data obtained by the error correction coding into the payload and add a header and a footer to produce a packet. Further, the framing sections 31 - 1 to 31 - 4 add a start code to the top of the packet and adds an end code to the tail end of the packet to carry out framing of the packet.
  • the modulation sections 32 - 1 to 32 - 4 individually carry out a modulation process for frame data which configure the transmission frames obtained by the framing.
  • the DACs 33 - 1 to 33 - 4 carry out D/A conversion for the frame data obtained by the modulation process.
  • the transmission amplifiers 34 - 1 to 34 - 4 individually transmit the signals obtained by the D/A conversion to the reception side block 12 .
  • the processes at steps S 2 to S 8 are carried out repetitively for all transmission data outputted from the signal processing section 21 and end when the processes for all transmission data end.
  • reception process of the reception side block 12 is described with reference to a flow chart of FIG. 10 .
  • Processes at steps S 11 to S 15 are carried out in parallel by the reception processing sections 51 - 1 to 51 - 4 .
  • the reception amplifiers 61 - 1 to 61 - 4 individually receive signals transmitted thereto from the transmission side block 11 and adjust the signal voltage of the received signals.
  • the clock reproduction sections 62 - 1 to 62 - 4 individually detect an edge of the signals supplied thereto from the reception amplifiers 61 - 1 to 61 - 4 , respectively, to reproduce a clock signal.
  • the ADCs 63 - 1 to 63 - 4 carry out sampling in accordance with the clock signals reproduced by the clock reproduction sections 62 - 1 to 62 - 4 , respectively.
  • the demodulation sections 64 - 1 to 64 - 4 carry out a demodulation process for frame data obtained by the sampling.
  • the frame synchronization sections 65 - 1 to 65 - 4 detect a start code and an end code from the frame data supplied thereto from the demodulation sections 64 - 1 to 64 - 4 , respectively, to establish frame synchronism.
  • the frame synchronization sections 65 - 1 to 65 - 4 output coded data placed in the payload to the coupling section 52 .
  • the coupling section 52 rearranges the coded data supplied thereto from the frame synchronization sections 65 - 1 to 65 - 4 in the reverse order to the allocation order of the coded data to the transmission lines upon transmission line division to carry out a transmission line coupling.
  • the ECC processing section 53 carries out error correction decoding based on the parity included in the codeword configured from the coded data to correct an error of the transmission data.
  • the rearrangement processing section 54 carries out rearrangement of the transmission data after the error correction to produce transmission data of a unit of a predetermined number of bits same as that of the data outputted from the signal processing section 21 in the transmission side block 11 .
  • the processes at steps S 11 to S 18 are carried out repetitively until the processing for the signals transmitted from the transmission side block 11 is ended.
  • the signal processing section 55 carries out signal processing based on the transmission data supplied thereto from the rearrangement processing section 54 at step S 19 .
  • the signal processing section 55 ends the processing.
  • an error of transmission data which appears on a transmission line is corrected using an error correction code added to the transmission data. Consequently, when an error of transmission data appears, there is no necessity to issue a request to re-send the transmission data to the transmission side block 11 , and therefore, the real time property of data transmission can be assured while an error countermeasure is assured. Further, since there is no necessity to provide a transmission line for a re-sending request, simplification in circuit configuration and reduction in cost can be anticipated. Further, since the circuit configuration can be simplified, also the power consumption can be reduced.
  • FIG. 11 A configuration of the transmission side block 11 which carries out error correction coding after transmission line division and a configuration of the reception side block 12 which carries out error correction decoding before transmission line coupling are shown in FIG. 11 .
  • a number of ECC processing sections 23 - 1 to 23 - 4 equal to the number of transmission lines are provided at a position lower than the division section 24 .
  • a number of ECC processing sections 53 - 1 to 53 - 4 equal to the number of transmission lines are provided at a position lower than the coupling section 52 .
  • each block indicated by slanting lines represents a block of coded data which suffer from an error
  • each block indicated by no slanting line represents a block of coded data which does not suffer from an error.
  • the coded data of the block 6 and the coded data of the block 10 transmitted through the transmission line C 2 are dispersed into different codewords as indicated ahead of a solid-white arrow mark in FIG. 7 .
  • most of error correction codes are vulnerable to burst errors.
  • the error correction capacity can be enhanced.
  • FIG. 12 shows an example of a hardware configuration of a computer which executes the series of processes described hereinabove in accordance with a program.
  • a central processing unit (CPU) 101 a read only memory (ROM) 102 and a random access memory (RAM) 103 are connected to one another by a bus 104 .
  • CPU central processing unit
  • ROM read only memory
  • RAM random access memory
  • an input/output interface 105 is connected to the bus 104 .
  • An inputting section 106 including a keyboard, a mouse and so forth, and an outputting section 107 including a display unit, a speaker and so forth are connected to the input/output interface 105 .
  • a storage section 108 formed from a hard disk, a nonvolatile memory, or the like, a communication section 109 formed from a network interface or the like, and a drive 110 for driving a removable medium 111 are connected to the input/output interface 105 .
  • the CPU 101 loads a program stored, for example, in the storage section 108 into the RAM 103 through the input/output interface 105 and the bus 104 and executes the program to carry out the series of processes described above.
  • the program to be executed by the CPU 101 can be recorded on, for example, a removable medium 111 or can be provided through a wire or wireless transmission medium such as a local area network, the Internet or a digital broadcast, and installed into the storage section 108 .
  • the program to be executed by the computer may be of the type by which the processes are carried out in a time series in the order as described in the present specification or of the type by which the processes are executed in parallel or executed individually at necessary timings such as when the process is called.

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